News & Events

Group member news

October 2024

Two students from my group (Reasad and Grace) participated the U.S. Coastal Research Program for Student & Professional Development hosted in the ERDC's Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL). 

See the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)’s Post on LinkedIn.


Conference

October 2024

My research group attended the 60th Anniversary Joint Water Resources Conference hosted by three organizations (AWRA, UCOWR, NIWR). Five group members presented their research. Four are the first national conference presents. 

Student club 

September 2024

The first 2024 all-hands WET club meeting took place in the CEE department on Wednesday, Sep 25. We celebrated a great start to the year with exciting plans ahead! 

Student graduations 

September 2024

Two graduate students have completed their programs and are moving on from the EFD lab. Wishing them all the best in their future endeavors!

Latest Research & News 

August 2024

The EFD Lab hosted a workshop for young scholars from Granny's House. Students had fun in exploring underwater technology. 

Latest Research & News 

June 2024

MU College of Engineering featured our recent research in the Gulf of Mexico with several science teams. See more information here

https://engineering.missouri.edu/2024/bubbling-with-curiosity-mizzou-engineer-investigates-oceanic-phenomenon-natural-seeps/

New award 

March 2024

Wang received the junior research excellence award from the College of Engineering.

https://engineering.missouri.edu/2024/faculty-staff-students-alumni-recognized-with-engineering-awards/ 

New grant


January 2024

New grant from the USGS national competitive research program to study behavior of carp larvae in turbulence.

https://engineering.missouri.edu/2024/missouri-water-center-helps-secure-three-usgs-national-competitive-grants/ 

Latest Research & News 

September 2023

MU College of Engineering featured our recent research funding to study natural seeps.

https://engineering.missouri.edu/2023/wang-receives-funding-to-develop-technology-to-study-natural-seeps/ 

Latest Research & News 

May 2022

Funded by NSF, we will develop a novel instrument for marine seep studies in the next three years. See details here:

https://engineering.missouri.edu/engineer-develops-underwater-imaging-system-to-understand-natural-seeps 

Latest Research & News 

June 2021

We are excited about this research opportunity in collaborations with USGS Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC). See details here:

https://showme.missouri.edu/2021/predicting-the-spread-of-invasive-carp-using-river-water-flows/ 

2023 Engineer's week

My graduate student, Erfan, was showing K-12 students about turbulent mixing in a small tank using an LED and a high-speed camera. Our lab presented experimental fluid dynamics to over 10 groups of K-12 students. 

2022 Missouri Section AWWA & MWEA Annual Joint Conference 

The Mizzou WET student chapter (Water & Environmental Technologists) attended 2022 AWWA&MWEA joint conference in the beautiful Lake of the Ozarks. Elli Castonguay presented her work as a poster presentation.

MIZZOU ENGINEER'S WEEKOur lab presented the society impacts of our oil droplet studies in the 2019 Mizzou Engineer’s week. We also demonstrated our in-house development about how to use engineering applications to understand sciences.


MoWRRC Seminar Series 

The Missouri Water Resources Research Center seminar series is hosted by the CEE department at Mizzou. The seminars are to provide educational opportunities for students in the water resources areas, and to communicate sciences to the public. 

Freshwater mussel symposium

A mini-symposium about sediment impacts on freshwater mussels were organized to communicate the state of science, and share best practices and management strategies in protecting freshwater mussels. The recording of all presentations can be found here